I think the president has every right to be frustrated, because I think what happened to him was one of the greatest travesties in American history. Without any basis they started this investigation of his campaign. And even more concerning, actually is what happened after the campaign, a whole pattern of events after he was President to sabotage the presidency.
I think a primary focus isn’t to prepare a report, [but] to bring people to justice. And if people broke the law, and we can establish that with evidence, they will be prosecuted.
William Barr
These words were part of the most consequential interview since Trump alerted voters to the Russia Hoax over three years ago. Speaking Thursday night to Laura Ingraham (Fox News), the US attorney general made it clear John Durham (DOJ) was investigating Obama-era baddies like John Brennan, James Comey, and Andrew McCabe with a single goal: bring indictments. Right-thinking conservatives can finally sleep at night, right?
I believe in the Anglo-American system of justice, and I still hope the DOJ, grand jury, presiding judge, and trial jury err on the side of sending a message to future intelligence and law enforcement apparatchiks: don’t even think of partisan interference in an election or duly installed presidency. In other words, I can support a rush to judgment to get the ring leaders, even if a few shadows of doubt exist.
I can live with conviction despite a few shadows of doubt because of the FISA court injustice, Steele dossier, and Mueller investigation – but mostly because Adam Schiff, Diane Feinstein, and their media cronies acted as judge and jury for three years. Schiff crossed too many ethical boundaries to count. Feinstein withheld evidence from a Supreme Court nominee. And the press reported without constraint or common sense.
I can live with conviction despite a few shadows of doubt because the same so-called liberals, who screamed “count every vote” in 2000, screamed “not my president” in 2016 – and every year thereafter. The Left’s arrogance endangers our participatory democracy, because no political party has ever been just that right and another just that wrong. That’s the thinking trap that begat the Russian Revolution.
I can live with conviction despite a few shadows of doubt as a lesson to the Deep State, whose behavior must reflect the will of the US electorate. Bureaucrats are not installed by divine right: they are employees in the service of a fairly elected president – not the other way around. It would teach Washington bureaucrats a lingering lesson to see Brennan, Comey, McCabe and Strzok in orange jump suits: true patriots vote rather than scheme up insurance policies.